The attendance this year at the Home Schools was 134 (College, 62; Preparatory, 72). Improvement reported in general morals and habits of students. Great financial embarrassment reported, and urgent appeals for active measures to secure needed relief. [Illustration: EDWIN E. PARHAM, A. M., _President of Warrenton, Petersburg, and Hampton Female Colleges._] Early in the session of 1849-'50, Professor E. A. Blanch resigned the Chair of Mathematics on account of continued bad health. Professor John C. Wills, a distinguished graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, was elected to fill the vacancy, and entered on his duties. He was a local minister in the Methodist Church, and a man of fine character and an accomplished teacher. The College was fortunate in securing such a man. The Faculty now consisted of the following; Dr. Smith, President; Professors Duncan, Stuart, Wills, Corprew (Tutor), and Williams T. Davis at the Preparatory School near the College. In June, 1850, they reported the Preparatory School as having done well, and the reception from it of twenty students for the next session, and four from the Ridgway Preparatory School. The school at Garysburg, N. C., had been discontinued. The schools at Lowell, N. C., and Richlands, N. C., in successful operation and accomplishing much good. From the above it will be seen that the establishment of academies as feeders to the College was a fact accomplished before the late effort in 1889. They were all in North Carolina, and the subsequent alienation carried them away from the College with whatever patronage they were bringing to it. Degrees were conferred as follows, June, 1850: A. B. EDWIN A. THOMPSON, N. C. EDWIN E. PARHAM, Va. EDWARD A. ADAMS, Va. JOHN F. DANCE, Va. WILLIAM A. BRAME, N. C. ROBERT H. WINFIELD, Va. BENJAMIN C. DREW, Va. THOMAS F. FITZGERALD, Va. A. M. REV. N. F. REID (Hon'y), N. C. BENNETT PURYEAR, Va. COLLEGE YEAR 1850-'51. Number of students reported this year: In College, 91; in Preparatory School, 62--total, 153. The schools in North Carolina, except Ridgeway, prosperous. The year was not satisfactory in the deportment of students generally, nor in finances. [Illustration: PROF. WILLIAM T. DAVIS, _Principal Preparatory School._] In June, 1851, the following degrees were conferred: A. B. WILLIAM H. CHRISTIAN, Va. HUGH D. BRACEY, Va. WILLIAM M. CRENSHAW, Va. HENRY F. DRAKE, N. C. ARMSTREAT E. FOWLKES, Va. JOHN H. GUY, Va. HEZEKIAH G. LEIGH, Jr., Va. JOHN S. LONG, N. C. JAMES O'HANLON, N. C. JACOB M. PALMER, Va. REUBEN PALMER, Va. WILLIAM MCK. ROBBINS, N. C. RICHARD H. WILLIAMS, Va. HENRY W. WINGFIELD, Va. [Illustration: WILLIAM MCK. ROBBINS, _Member of Congress from North Carolina._] A. M.